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April 9, 2026

Family

The Endless Goodbye

Ashley Parker

April 4, 2026

The Making of a Diagnostic Mind

Alexandra Sifferlin

March 31, 2026

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When Mentally Ill Teenagers Ask to Be Put to Death

Charles Lane

March 15, 2026

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Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence

Tom Nichols

March 6, 2026

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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Have Its Vaccine Policy Both Ways

Benjamin Mazer

March 5, 2026

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Being Human

Is It Aging, or Is It ADHD?

Yasmin Tayag

February 25, 2026

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‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’

Tom Bartlett

February 24, 2026

Del Bigtree speaks at a demonstration against mandatory vaccinations and protesting SB 5841, in Olympia, Washington, U.S. February 20, 2019.

The Deaths Doctors Never Thought They’d See in the U.S.

February 24, 2026

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Technology

The Edge of Mathematics

Matteo Wong

February 24, 2026

An illustration of the mathematician Terrance Tao

The Longevity Scam

Jordan D. Metzl

February 19, 2026

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Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless

Roxanne Khamsi

February 15, 2026

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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles

Elizabeth Bruenig

February 12, 2026

A collage showing a young child with measles and the shadow of two hands

How America Got So Sick

Vann R. Newkirk II

March 2026 Issue

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The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back

February 5, 2026

A blue map of the US teeters on the point of a vaccine's needle, against a red background

T-Maxxing Has Gone Too Far

Yasmin Tayag

January 30, 2026

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Being Human

A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’

Bonnie Tsui

January 14, 2026

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The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking

Sarah Zhang

January 12, 2026

The Flu Really Is That Bad

January 10, 2026

Eat More Deer

Yasmin Tayag

January 9, 2026

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Humor

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Be Declared Honorary Virus

Alexandra Petri

January 7, 2026

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For

Tom Bartlett

January 6, 2026

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Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon

January 5, 2026

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Measles’ Most Deceptive Trait

December 18, 2025

Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District, across from Wigwam Stadium, on February 27, 2025, in Seminole, Texas.

Science

The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable

Nancy Walecki

December 8, 2025

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You’re on Ozempic? How Quaint.

Sarah Zhang

November 28, 2025

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RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading

November 19, 2025

Being Human

The Inflammation Gap

Jason Liebowitz

November 4, 2025

Ozempic for All

Emily Oster

October 20, 2025

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Technology

ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father

Jon Michael Varese

September 28, 2025

Books Briefing

A Rupture in One’s Sense of Self

Maya Chung

September 26, 2025

Books

Patricia Lockwood’s Mind-Opening Experience of Long COVID

Bekah Waalkes

September 25, 2025

Politics

When Child Death Was Everywhere

Elizabeth Bruenig

September 24, 2025

Archival photographs of an influenza ward, an iron lung, and a certificate of protection against smallpox.

Podcasts

The Preventable Return of Deadly Diseases

David Frum

September 17, 2025